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1 ' If You Don't Rend The Chronicle You Don’t Get The News ' • . ' * (Ulitttan dhrattirlf The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper. Complete. Newsy and Reliable Volume LVIX Clinton, S. O, Thursday, August 28, 1958 Number 35 Speakers at Hospital Meeting Here Monday Night Public Meeting Favors New Hospital for Area ^ j . Committee Named to Steer Course Delegation Puts Two Roods In State System Senator Robert C Wasson stated Monday that the Laurens county legislative delegation had request Without a dissenting vote Monday nisrht. approximately '>00 residents of the lower end of Laurens County expressed themselves as l>einjr in favor of creating a hospital district lx* included the state highway system ed that two highways in this area an<l building a $1,000,000 hospital to serve the area. A committee was appointed to put the matter xfore th** county legislative delegation and collaltorate with it n on- The roads are in the Duncan nection with calling a referendum on the question. ( reek section and include that from The action was taken at a public Buffington Stave Mill at Highway meetmy in the < linti.n High School her > f board of trustees of th*- 56 to Philson’s Cross Roads, a dis- auditorium Laurens 1 mniy Hospital at Lau tance of four miles, and another two-mile ctretch from Philson's to Highway 56. Tlie roads will be included m the Proponents of the move pr*-sen mg the matter from various view points included P S Bailev pres- , , . . . ., ide.nt of Clinton and Lydia Cotton federal^aid secondary construction MllLs Walter wce . pre> . rens. he said he has realized for years that the hospital at Lauren* does no* serve the people of tfci* area program Golf Association To Meet Tuesday The Ladies Golf Association of Pr « 1(1 *n8 *t the meeting was R This is not a result of any .spint idont ami general manager of ’Jo- animosity between the people of anna Cotton Mills, Dr R M Ful- the two areas hut is a natural d;-. pii.' ler, Clinton physician: and .1 B vision The people of Clinton and— Hart, assistant treasurer of Joanna Joanna do not go to trte Laurens Cotton Mills. hospital, and the people of Laurens will, not come to the hospitals in Clinton and Joanna, he said Nei- Lakesitfe L Plaxico. secretary treasurer of D F. Tribble Company, building th, ‘ r <;hrUon docto ” P racU " Country Club will hold the regular monthly luncheon on , , _ Tuesday, Sept. 2 Lunch wd] be su PP‘y concern n,n,on served at noon P'or reservations Tn( ' metlmg was attended by res- an J’}" anBa at the Laurens hospital nor will Laurens doctors practice in Clinton call Mrs George R Blalcok Here are the presiding officer and speakers at the public meeting Monday night at Clinton High School when proponents of n new hospital for this area of the county pre sented their case to approximately 500 residents who attended. At the letf is R. L. Plaxico, srho presided, and the speakers to the right are P. S. Bailey, Walter Regnery, and Dr. R. M. Fuller. J. B. Hart, not shown, also was one of the speakers, each of whom talked on various phases of the proposed move to organize a hospital district along the lines of School District 56 and erect a $1,000,000 hospital. The assembly voted unanimously in approval of the project.—Photos by Dan Yarborough. PC to Open September 8;f"< Improvements In Plant i n District No. % Rev. Joel E. Cannon, Methodist Pastor, Is Performers, Beauty Show Spartanburg Native Slated for Electric Fair Thursday, Friday Nights The Rev Joel E Cannon wa5 as signed to Broad Street Methodist Church at the recent session of the South Carolina Annual Conference 4 Presbyterian College points to , One is located behind Spencer Most pupils in the schools of Dis- Some of the nation’s top enter- Horry Electric Co-Op in the state ^ the opening of its 78th session on Dormitory and the other behind trict-56 will report today, according tainers have been signed up for the contest. Cannon has c mol ted f September 8 with a final flourish of Bailey Hall dormitory. Grading to a schedule announced by school big Electric Fair and annual meet jhe following young ladies ha\e f . Grace Church in summer improvements and its work, is being done through the administrators mg scheduled for tonight and Friday entere( j ^ beauty contest. Peggy Pickens longest waiting list of applicants in office of County Supervisor Bennie First at ni « ht at th « Uurens County fair Hyatt. Linda Pettie. and Gad Gwmn. He is a son of M/ and Mm John history. BUkel, Moontt.ll. sod Oom HiII. lad thrir grounds, scrordm, to ^urrn. Eire R , , p auRa , « Sponsnborg sod ss. Completion of the new $250,000 student center represents the big gest change on the campus land scape. But college maintenance crews under Plant Superintendent O F Beaty have been busy c*‘y workers laid it throughout the summer ovating existing The City of Clinton is cooperat ^ d * y IL,.* 'l" 0 tVOp *’ Far iRt L Roebuck; Kay Lee. Rt 5. graduated in 1985 from Spartan ing toward improving the drainage » *P° naor o1 ^ • how Spartanburg Brenda Gwmn Rt 2 idents of the area proposed for the hospital district, including Clinton, " r s;at ed that (. Lnton Joanna. Lydia Mills Mounts,lie and l -' d,a Mdls wdl ^ ar about and Cross Hill, which coincides c0 ! rt ^ ■ hospital Both Mr Bailey and Mr Hart in pursuing the p«>.nt that the Laurens hospital is not used by residents of this area to any great extent toid of the hundreds of claims for med ical service by workers in their mill*, stating that only a very few cases were served by the Laurens hospital, and 'h<«te included res ident- of 'he Laurens area Mr Regnery *pnke in a similar vein to Mr Bailey stating that the hospital at Joanna is operated by the Joanna Foundation and after several meeting* of members of the Foundation hoard of trustee* to look into the situation it was agreed that residents of Joanna with the area embraced in School District 56 Mr Bailey told of the need for a new hospital in this area to replace the three small private institutions now in operation Being a mem Funeral Services For Mrs. John Spratt Conducted Monday Funeral services for Mrs Ta lullah Neville Spratt. 7« were held from PC * indoor swimming pool *'**5 C* port . U’ 1 * ' no ™ ,n * a Leading off will be Senor Torino Woodruff Kay Melton Martha Campbell pointed out the college jk ^ ihrmiehrm! the diairirt and who P r * >en * aophistica- Haw kin- and Peggy Lee Id be facilitle* and m«k jg _ 1 rLu? wtad'i ** ^•TCyiJlalUlJ 10 rlCW rpup&* and thooe at On Monday, Sepl. 8 comfort of the body BuokwM Manager G. Edward Campbell said that all dormitories have had floors reworked and new furniture added Smyth Dormitory largest on the campus with a 144 ae,e 6 aIK vampumi ww i.«r th* MaWKULS. a no regg> L*r M till*. had purchased drainage pipe, and r _,^.j, ^ humor and sparkling deceptions Fmintun Joyce Ann Jenmng*. ^ * V c- —I. K. a. u> return f **** Gray Court, Alice Tottuon Rt. 1. \nothcr top prnct)(atMB piU^kcj^aucai^ P«mp BidtiU, Rt A- High' * ov *hJe "Penny, the trailMSl sew'^Hoara Path. Jeaa Sat ter whit, and trill return for the seceod day Penn > “ • famous personality in onealia Bundnck Rt 1. Mount Beginning Monday. Sept 1. all her right and is expected lo vilie. Carol Bedenbaugh Joanna students will report ta heir respec- Pf®' 1 *** laugh* a plenty for every Janr Goodwin Rt 2. Foun- tive buildings at 8 SO a m The body at the thew tain Inn, Loreita Makirop Hi 2. schools will not observe Labor Day Furnishing musical entertammsaf gnoree and Virginia Balcombr Rt as a holiday this year. This week. jn<1 hj.kground music for coalasls 2 fountain Inn The Laurens County legislative in their Sept 1-S. capacity. has been remodeled >y session on Monday. Sept I. Kijbort throughout much of iU interior was stated by Senator Robert C. | noon Classroom floors in Neville Hall al- Wasson so received refinishmg work, while The meeting was postponed for a LeRoy Springs Gymnasium and Ja- because of the Labor Day cobs Science Hail were given a holiday, he said sprucing up of exteriors The ad- — Chamber and Merchants prove heating to all buildings eluding faculty homes Two large parking arena. under construction, will provide, space for more than 100 automo- Clinton Cotton Mills will opt-rat* on a and * rou P ua « ln f »«U be Jimmie dismissing at 12 00 Applegate, one of the nation's top Mr Fans issues a special in vita Hon to town people as well as co-op Sent I the rraular artists on the electric organ . . aep< a. me regular . " , J members to come out an enjoy this schedule will begin I JO a. m to * r rartt says these professional 2 J3 p m . with lunches being sen entertainer* along with the con- ,rre ed and the regular school schedule business meeting, exhitnu ay Group Visits Clinton Mills yearTVuectnc Fair one m Mrs. Eugene Johnson shows ever to appear here Y • T I Tr| P To B€ach the young lady who will r»prspent ■ 1 Mrs. Fageae Jehnaoa was ihr wtnaer af TW Chnafrie * “Va- ralleo at the Beach" as deter miard ia a drawtag held al the •fflre Iasi Satnrday .revi-r* h TW 1 > a \h>nday afternoon at 3 30 o'cio at thr First PmbyteAan Church jn(1 jmpty »• conducted by Dr William Redd ^ aouM b#ck ^ Tunwr. pastor Interment was ta ,notation Riwemant Cemetery Dr R M Fuller « liman Pallbearers were R e e s a H nan «gh the Blalacfc Chmr Young. Harry Nettlaa. Hugh Ja- the phymnaa* of M robs Tench P Owens Rufus Sad want the community ler Taylor Martin David NeviBe of Newberry and William R Wade .if Asheville N C Mrv Spratt. wife of J din Spratt. vuddrnlv late Saturday at her un West Maple tire* for th ■ EY JOF.I. F. CANNON burg High School He received vc bool He r from Woffu the Laurens Electric Cooperative ia the statewide contest in Columbia Clinton's tendent. and Calvin Cooper, person this fall biles and will eliminate parking on oldest and largest major industry, a** didector, explained the manu The lucky young lady who wum the one-story avenues leading to was the fifth stop on the weekly factoring operations a. the, toured the contem here according to Mr and from the censor of the campus tour being made by representatives 'b* 1 group through the plaM. ^ aru i wm • ^**b P*w» of the Chamber of Commerce and Founded la MM all expense paid trip to Colum Merchants Division in their cour Clinton Cotton Mills was founded bta In Columbia she will appear on tesy calls on officials at mamifae in 18M by Mercer Silas Bailey, a radio and television and compete auring plants in the Clinton area, promment local cotton lem mer with other local winners for the Making the visit to Clinton Mills chant Beginning with 5,000 spin- title al Miss S. C. Electric Co-Op last Thursday were five represen- dies and 150 looms, this venture The statewide winner will receive tatives of the Chamber and Mer- has developed into the present plant a big prize plus a trip to Wfashing- chants Division which included J. of 106.400 spindles and 2.420 looms ton. D. C.. to compete for the na Whitten Village Schools To Begin Session On Monday The Whitten Village schools, in cluding campus and circle, will be gin a new term on Monday. Dr. B. O. Whitten, superintendent, has stat ed. Members of the staff will be: Campus staff, pre-school; Mrs. Allie Hamilton,' Clinton; academic, Mrs. Sara Cason, Clinton; Miss Louise Cox, Clinton; Mrs. Sara Dai ley, Clinton; Miss Essie Davidson, Clinton; Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller. Laurens; Ml's. J. H. Hunter, Clin ton; Mrs. Ayliffe Jacobs, Clinton; Mrs. Sarah Lester, Cross Hill; Mrs. Inez Lindley, Laurens; Mrs. Rubie Milam. Mount vilie; Mrs. Margaret Sease. Clinton; Mrs. Edith Wingo, Laurens. Extra-curricular: Director of homeraaking and 4-H Club activi ties, Mrs. Beatrice B. Sloan, Clin ton, and assistants, Mrs. Gladys Catoe. Clinton, and Mrs. Ezelle D. Corley, Clinton; physical education and recreation, P. W. Rogers, and assistants, Harold Rhodes and Aud rey McCrosky. of Clinton; boys shop. Rudolph Matthews; music and dancing. Joe Shay. Clinton, and Mrs. Kenneth Heist, Greenville. Circle school, nursery and kin dergarten level; music and rhythm work. Mrs. lone Wallace, Clinton; classroom teachers: Mr; Beatrice Coats. Mbuntville; Mrs Eva Pitts, Joanna; Mrs Myrtia Roper, Lhur cm. Mrs. Emily Me Ml Ilian Clin ton. Mrs. Mary Jim Harlan. Clia- lan. physical C. Thomas, chairman of the Mer chants Division. Vernon Trammell, Bob Cox. Van Jones, and James Williams. In the unavoidable absence of President P. S. Bailey, the delega tion was greeted by Vice-President J. B. Templeton. Mr Thomas ex pressed to him the appreciation of the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants Division for the vital contributions the company makes to the economy of the area. A letter containing similar sentiments from Jim Von Hollen, president of the Chamber of Commerce, was pre sented to Mr. Templeton along with a sufficient number of copies for posting on the plant’s bulletin boards. Following the welcoming reception in Mr. Templeton's office, he with George Huguley, superih-' City To Observe Monday As Holiday Most business establishments in the city will rinse Monday in ob servance of Labor Day, according to the dumber of Commerce. A majority of the retail stares wlO close, U was staled, and the regular Wednesday clooiag will also be la effect next week. Maaafactartag plants generally wig take the day off, k wan said. yenag son. Johnny. wlO leave Friday to he Tike Chronicle's gneUs at famed Myrtle Beark on the Sooth Carottna roast for a three-day vacattoo. Thr newspaer had offered the trip as a prise dartag the past several weeks U aaysoe wh« filled la and returned rsnpon* printed in the paper, with a beaus sf $4* being added if the winner wan a paid up subarriber U The Chronicle, which Mrs. Johnson won. The Chronicle wishes for hie verv AB degree fflim Wofford Coilrgr and studied at Vanderbilt I'mver stty and Candler School of Theol ogy. Emory I'atversity, where he received the Bachelor, at thsimty degree in IMS For two years he served as a chaplain in the army He held an A ft li«Bbur> m G reen tt mod County «h NT lUd ffladr • her h ome ia Clinton < unre IMS coming ere i ihen her ft Mhtr the UU p t>r V 1'iUiai m G Nevi lie btrjmr pres at Presbyterian Coflege Her ; ■ - Hi r * A3 \ irgi ms Nr% ill# T eduratt>m I n the B umic % rhR k <9! f Y'orfc and was rariu. RtfMi the t aflege fur V t »mefi ia Columbia Mrs Spratt uai i a member 4 the f w Prvwbyten, an Church and fl 1 • ' the ladte* Bible claw u n the cl huriti i school for many year* She a* active thro* tgh the yeai » IB IVIC, church and educational •oik m nd r untnbuted i much to thr cul It iral 1 ife of tike < immunity iv m* he*M les her hu* band re th tree daught er*. Mrs F rede n ck K nopp of Rm i De Janeiro Bra /1 1. M [rt John C llover and Mr* K nth Flei Mh man . both of Chi at on ve s*i in. John B Spratt of Mary the pfi)*tciam are nartigat.ng th* movement The doctors he satd. ’hinh it is a prngrrsaivr step The Say niO r me. hr said. • her the small private hospitals cannot moot the m stern needs of the commu nity The time nitl come he de clared when such a stop a now hospital < oiR have to bo made—and Ve sm.firi Mr Ha appi per Dut 54 per cv $? unn am I net 35 and He spnhe 1 cm i! atior property > : »<ded and 44 ■ IMhMI Dial net laflMnag r®d of the proponed n| that huoptLals af the sue o fthr one proponed 1 tn to W beds' were ideal from the standpoint at ecuminurai operation, acordmg tn awtboritun on the subject K M Turner at t Imter. made a mutton for n shew at hands at thane in favor at a referndum herondod L Ficbrlhertei to put thr matter before legislative driesaiiea b* nerv be Davis Young Ordained, Parents Attend Service ! Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Young have F-eturned from Aberdeen, Miss., where they spent several days with their son and daughter-in-law. the Rev. and Mrs Davis Young, going especially to auemi his ordination service. The Rev Mr. Young, who grad uated recently with n BD degree from Columbia Theological Semi- nan. Decatur, Ga . was ordained md mgtsllad aa pamer af the Fml af AberdaA Young wan « member of the City Merchants Visit Clinton Cotton Mills; Taken on Tour of Plant Based on print cloth production tional title of Miss Rural Elrctnfi spindles in operation, it is today one cation at the annual meeting of the of the three largest single textile National Rural Electric Cooperative plants in the nation Each year 36. Association. The national winner 000 bales of cotton (360 box car rece jves a handsome trophy and a loads h are consumed in the pro- scholarship. Present holder of the duction of approximately 90,000.000 na tj ona | title is Miss Brenda Rae Johnson* a verv pleasant feu yards of top quality print cloth* Ewings, of Lons, who represented days at the beach! The mill currently employs 1.000 local people with an annual payroll of over $3,000,000 The Clinton plant, which has been a bellwether for the economy of the Clinton area since before the turn of the century, processes and con sumes more than 93,000.000 gallons of water each year and uses an nually over a quarter million dol lars in electrical power. Company officers are: P. S. Bai ley, president and treasurer; Ro bert M. Vance and J. B Temple ton, vice-presidents; W. C. Neely, secretary. A merchants gjx>up will visit Lydia Cotton Mills today. bv i laud* t ruck* Greenville County, and was direc tor of youth work in the South are three daughter*. Mrv Frede Hi Carolina Conference in 1M7 .md rick Krvipp of Rr> I>e Janeiro Bra moved IMS Prior to going to Pickens he wa* iveitn rwisenman. uotn ot < uw -n count< at St Paul Church, Florence, for on*- win. John B Spratt of Mary* rumirq five year* 'die Tenn elecen grandchildren the chairman In June. 1M2. he marned Miss thr*e brother* DMA Neville of Chairman Plaxico yesterday an Opal Lancaster of Spartanburg Vow hern Dr William G Neville Bounced that he had r-amed a» and they have two young daughters, of Garnahun*. Brazil and the Rev m* mbers of the committee W C Catherine 9. and Mildred Josephine John C Neville of Old Fort. N C ; Neely of Clinton, chairman. Dr 44. three sisters. Mr* W H James at George R Blalock of Chatoa. J The Cannons moved here ve*ter Atlanta, Ga Mrs Lewis H Lan B Hart of Joanna D H Robert* ♦lay and are occupying the par caster of Nashville Tenn and of Lydia Mills and Fuller Mote* sonage on Chestnut street Mr* G A Nickle* of Charleston of Mount vilie